Linked bibliography for the SEP article "
Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics" by Mark Colyvan

This is an automatically generated and experimental page

If everything goes well, this page should display the bibliography of the aforementioned article as it appears in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but with links added to PhilPapers records and Google Scholar for your convenience. Some bibliographies are not going to be represented correctly or fully up to date. In general, bibliographies of recent works are going to be much better linked than bibliographies of primary literature and older works. Entries with PhilPapers records have links on their titles. A green link indicates that the item is available online at least partially.

This experiment has been authorized by the editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The original article and bibliography can be found here.

Although the indispensability argument is to be found in many places in
Quine's writings (including 1976; 1980a; 1980b; 1981a; 1981c), the
locus classicus is Putnam's short monograph Philosophy of
Logic (included as a chapter of the second edition of the third
volume of his collected papers (Putnam, 1979b)). See also Putnam
(1979a) and the introduction of Field (1989) which has an excellent
outline of the argument. Colyvan (2001) is a sustained defence of the
argument.

–––, 1976, “Carnap and Logical Truth” reprinted in The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, revised edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 107–132 and in Benacerraf and Putnam (1983), pp. 355–376. (Scholar)

–––, 1980a, “On What There Is”, reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, 2nd edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 1–19. (Scholar)

–––, 1980b, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, 2nd edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 20–46; reprinted in Hart (1996), pp. 31–51 (Page references are to the first reprinting). (Scholar)